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BREAKING: BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) - Federal court temporarily blocks Alabama plan for new congressional districts that could help Republicans.

JUST IN: Uber’s COO says heavy AI spending is getting harder to justify, as higher token usage fails to show a clear payoff in consumer features.

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas

unfortunately the catholic church declaring holy war on AI is raw af

We already knew Tolkien would have despised — to his very core — these techno-fascist losers who idolize him. Having the literal Pope rub that fact in their faces? Perfection.

FFS, the president’s son sits on the board of the two biggest prediction market companies. It’s 24/7 corruption with our government.

To explain the significance of this, Anthropic moved enterprises to token-based billing in Q1 2026. This is at most four months of having to pay the true cost of their token burn and they’re already begging for mercy. There is a ceiling to the revenues of these companies.

Please stop. I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.

New: A brand-new company backed by a venture capital fund connected to right-wing billionaire Charles Koch could get $2 million from Florida taxpayers under an eleventh-hour earmark that top lawmakers have agreed to add to the new state budget. Details at Seeking Rents.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andre…

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he's not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs. bit.ly/4e3w4PC

If enough other companies report the same, the bubble pops. 🫧

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED AT THE ENHANCED GAMES.. Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. spent millions to create a steroid Olympics. They promised to "redefine human limits" and put up $25M in prize money. After 5 hours in Las Vegas, here’s the scoreboard: - 1 world record (not recognized by anyone) - Thor Björnsson failed his 515kg deadlift (managed only 475kg) - olympic sprinter Fred Kerley missed the 100m WR by 0.4s - without even taking drugs - the only "record" came from a Greek swimmer who finished 5th at Paris 2024. He wore a supersuit banned since 2009 and beat the clean record by just 0.07s the whole pitch was that drugs would shatter the limits of clean sport. instead they proved the gap between juiced and clean is now 7 hundredths of a second - in a suit banned 17 years ago. the only thing they actually proved was how good the clean athletes already are. You think the Enhanced Games exposed anything or just embarrassed themselves?

The President’s Big Beautiful Bill, the Iran War, and Republican spending bills will create a $2 trillion budget DEFICIT in 2026. Financing just the new debt costs more than all federal road & bridge projects, and we will be making those new interest payments each year, forever.

“So you think people should just have free food and housing?” Yes. One of the things every government should do is ensure its citizens have food and shelter. I hate when people call me dumb for wanting a utopia. What’s the point of a species that can build one if we don’t?

Not all spiders are scary. Some are actually cute and can be kept as pets, like jumping spiders, especially Lucas the Spider 🕷️ What’s even crazier is that studies suggest they can recognize their owner’s face and become attached to them.

no data center on Earth is worth the bees, water, and trees.

The saddest thing in politics is watching citizens defend the same system that keeps failing them.

Clarence B. Jones, lawyer and speechwriter who drafted part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech, has died nytimes.com/2026/05/25/us/…

Ever since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Trump’s gerrymandering war has kicked into high gear. Multiple states’ congressional maps are up in the air. Our LIVE redistricting map has the latest updates: bit.ly/47tdiN9